el3so wrote:Dunno, I heard pretty much the same stories about weed turning kids crazy from some psychiatric ward nurse acquaintances but I didn't believe them then, I still seriously doubt it now.
I have seen hundreds of people suffering various consequences of all types of drugs, many, many of them, including those at various stages of withdrawal so am completely familiar with cause and effect. None of you can contradict what I have seen or describe what you know, without me understanding what you are talking about because I have undoubtedly seen examples of it too. Be it from kids using "friendly" drugs that leave them acting no worse than a disorderly drunk to smackheads with both legs amputated , still looking for veins to inject.
So when I say that I have seen people, who experienced doctors, not quacks, doctors who act as Police surgeons, have described as having a cannabis psychosis I am talking about people who's demeanour is outside of the parameters of what we would describe as withdrawal symptoms or after effects. Way outside. Doubt it or otherwise I have seen them. Maybe the medical pundits who say it doesn't exists are the real quacks. Never saw any of them doing their thesis or papers in the Police doctors room at 4am when we trying to hold down some poor raving lunatic who though we were space aliens.
I accept what has been said, that some people may have a propensity or gene that puts them more at risk, but some of the argument I have seen here suggests the analogy that if a person with a genetic propensity for diabetes, when it develops should not blame the sweets and biscuits and Big Macs for their type 2 because lots of other people eat those things and they are ok.
That argument does not take away that the original question prompts my response that cannabis does cause mental illness in individuals.
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